‘What to expect from The Awaiting Table where I was a student? An enormous table lavishly set for twice-daily feasts, cooking in the beautifully appointed kitchen, joined by friends, many of them new, from all over the world. And to come home three pounds lighter. I’ve already scheduled to go back next September’ — The Richmond Times – Dispatch

‘Silvestro Silvestori is (a) a sommelier, cook, teacher, photographer, and director of the internationally acclaimed The Awaiting Table Cooking School and (b) one of the best food writers around. [His writing is]… an extraordinarily rare glimpse into a rich culinary mind in full flow.’ — John Thorne, author

Whether it’s a cookery course at our cooking school in Lecce, or a wine course at the castle, from how to make our extra virgin, to bicycling Puglia, as a way of learning more about Italian agriculture and vineries.